Detection of escaping magnesium in the upper atmosphere of WASP-76b

arXiv:2610.09128 · astro-ph.EP · Submitted 2026-10-06 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-10-06

Updated: 2026-10-06

Code: https://github.com/ladsantos/stissplice

Terminology

• Metallicity — 23× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Abundance — 15× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmark — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Aperture — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Core — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Trace — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Transmission spectroscopy — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Degeneracy — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph — 2× in this paper
• Calibration — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Consistency — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Physical Constraints — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes

Sources

• The 2017 Release of Cloudy
• Modeling the Dynamics and Thermochemistry for the Outer Atmospheres of the Ultra-hot Jupiter WASP-121b

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